5:2 FAST DIET - WHAT DOES A DAY LOOK LIKE?
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Curious about what 500 calories looks like? Well this is one day's worth of eating and drinking on the Fast Diet;
I make myself a latte every morning and therefore I see no reason not to do the same on Fast Days. I change from 2% milk (Semi Skimmed) to 0% (Skimmed) and carefully measure 1/4 cup of milk.
- Skimmed Milk Latte- 20kcal
At lunch time I usually have a green juice or a salad. Today was a juice day. This juice was 1/4 of a cucumber, 1 tsp ginger, 1 cup of spinach and half a lime.
- Fast Day Green Juice- 30kcal
3pm is a killer time for me. Normally I would be reaching for a bowl of cereal or a sliced banana with Nutella on each slice at this time of day. The kids are home from school and there is a mad frenzy in the kitchen of hungry children and homework. I made a super low calorie soup to get me through it. Simply mix 1tsp instant beef stock with 2 tsp chopped cilantro (coriander), 25g spring onions, 4 sliced grape tomatoes and a cup of boiling water.
- Fast Day Soup- 23kcal
FAST DAY PRAWN NOODLE SALAD
SALAD
- 100g cooked prawns
- 1 red pepper
- 10g spring onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup chopped red cabbage
- 50g rice noodles, soaked in water
- 10 sugar snap peas
- 1/2 carrot, peeled and thinly sliced
DRESSING
- Juice of half a lime
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 1 x dried chilli, crumbled
- 2g Furikake
- 1 tsp fish sauce
- 10g spring onion, sliced thinly
Let the dressing ingredients sit a little to meld the flavours and then toss through the salad.
- Fast Day Prawn Noodle Salad- 411kcal
I drank lots of water all day and three cups of tea with 10ml skimmed milk in each one (12kcal in total). In the evening I drank a slimline tonic water with lots of ice and a slice of lime.
So for this Fast Day I ate 497 calories.
I am not a diet or nutrition expert. Anyone who wishes to try this diet plan needs to first check out all of the details right here. All of my calorie values are plucked from either the packet or the internet. All recipes and images are my own.
1 comments
I like the taste of Green drink, if you have ever tried a shot wheat grass juice, you know exactly what I’m talking about! On the other hand, there are few people like me, who like the taste of green drinks.
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